“A guide to the ecology of a severe ongoing merging of matter, social and visual information the present world. The shift to a multi-polar, mobile, post-democratic, gated, real-time set of conditions effectively redistributes the global balance of powers. The existing structures of our (Western) mode of thinking and being, inducing flows of energy and value, the domain of aesthetics, the currency of art, and our role in the process that is civilization are being reshaped and re-articulated. The scale of these changes are reflected in the dynamics of formats– files, gadgets, species, identities, ideologies, brands, styles, cultures, natural disasters, memes, technologies– entering the ultimate platform and player of dissemination.” – From the publisher.
Assembling some of the brightest internet artists working today, The Post Internet Survival Guide presents a significant fragment of new practices being forged in code.
